[Libreoffice] Using gnu-cp on Mac OS X for building LibreOffice

[Jan Holesovsky]

Hi Thomas,

On 2010-10-08 at 01:04 +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> > From what I read, the BSD cp has very annoying behavior wrt. recursive
> > copying of directories, so I understand why GNU cp is preferred ;-)
> 
> Where did you read that, or can you explain directly what the problem
> is?

Eg. here (even though this is not the location where I saw it for the
first time):

http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/97509-cp-r-behaviour.html

Basically, if you cp -R, the behavior differs between BSD and GNU when
you add a '/' at the end of the source dir - I suppose there might be
cases where the authors of the scripts/makefiles do not care if they
have a slash at the end of the source dir, or not, because for the GNU
cp, it does not matter.

I'll welcome a patch that cleans it up if this really is the issue :-) -
we definitely want to make the build easier, not harder.

Thank you,
Kendy